Stuff To Blow Your Mind cover image

From the Vault: Jupiter the Destroyer, Part 1

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

00:00

The Throne of the Titans, a Greek Pantheon of Gods

Cronus is jealous and pyranoid, like many kings of greek myth are. He fears his own offspring. So every time rhea gives birth to one of his offspring, cronus would eat the new born child. But then zeus is born. And here rhea plays a trick on cronus. She feeds him, it's a very good trick. Insteadse she sends the real zeus off to hide away in a cave, and swaps out zeus for a stone in a blanket and hands it over to cronus who just eats it up. It's great. I really enjoyed looking up, mostly modern illustrations of what this could have looked

Play episode from 16:37
Transcript

The AI-powered Podcast Player

Save insights by tapping your headphones, chat with episodes, discover the best highlights - and more!
App store bannerPlay store banner
Get the app